London: Macmillan, 1972. Hard Cover. 8vo. 318 p.p.Eight unnumbered pages B&W photographs, some B&W maps. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Rubbing to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket has some light wear to edges and corners. Pictorial map endpapers, bookplate to half title and ink ownership inscription..... More about Palgrave of Arabia: William Gifford Palgrave 1826-1888
San Francisco: Miller Freeman Books, 1999. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. xii, 274 p.p. B&W photos throughout. Includes discography. Quarter-bound in black cloth with purple paper boards, gilt lettering to spine and front board. Damp stain to foot of rear endpapers. Dust jacket is slightly bumped at extremities, damp stains..... More about Grant Green: Rediscovering the Forgotten Genius of Jazz Guitar
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2007. Hard Cover. 8vo. xiii, 342 p.p. Cloth. Foreward by Joan Rivers. No marks to dust-jacket. Light bumping to spine ends of boards. Title page signed by author. Clean, a fine copy of book. More about Starring Brian Linehan. a Life Behind the Scenes
London: Weidenfeld and Nelson [A Windrush Press Book], 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original jacket and publishers blue cloth. xiii, 210 p.p. [8] p.p. plates of illustrations. Jacket bright. Light rubbing to covers. Some scratches to boards. Spine-ends bruised. Interior clean, bright. Near fine in a fine jacket. More about The Transit of Venus: The Brief, Brilliant Life of Jeremiah Horrocks, Father of British Astronomy
New York: Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company, 2003. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo. Stated first edition, full number line. Paperback. xiii, 881 p.p. Sixteen unnumbered pages of B&W photos. Spine and edges of covers sunned, else fine. "A balanced, full-blooded portrait....Bair has unearthed fascinating new material...Jung will..... More about Jung: A Biography
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1937. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 18mo. The Cambridge Miscellany Series. 105 p.p., [1]. Maroon cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Spine ends and corners are bumped and rubbed, damp stain to rear board. Top edge maroon. Dust jacket is lightly foxed, worn, several chips, reinforced... More about Oliver Cromwell and the English People
Toronto: ECW Press, 1997. Hard Cover. 8vo. 237 p.p. White cloth binding with red titling to spine. Some scuffs to boards. Dust jacket lightly sunned at head and spine. B&W photos.Text clean, spine tight. More about Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent
London: Chatto & Windus Ltd., With William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1973. Hard Cover. 8vo (medium). Volume 1: 1894-1939, 400 p.p. Volume 2: 1939-1963, 378 p.p. Dust jackets price clipped. Aqua publisher's cloth, gilt titling to spine. Pages bumped at head of fore head of volume 1. Sunning to... More about Aldous Huxley: A Biography (2 volumes
Quebec: Musee Du Quebec, 1986. Hard Cover. 4to. xv, 199 p.p. Cloth. Photographs throughout. Endpapers designed with a portrait of Louis Jobin. Small tear to top of jacket spine. No marks to boards. Fine copy of book. More about Louis Jobin. Master-Sculptor
London: Peter Owen Limited, 1951. Hard Cover. 8vo. xxii, 422 p.p. Cloth. Illustrations. Discolouration to spine ends and corners of dust-jacket. Tears to ends of dust-jacket. Bumping to boards, extremities. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar on front pastedown endpaper. Notes in blue ink to head of rear pastedown. Price clipped. Overall... More about Goethe's World. As Seen in Letters and Memoirs
Montreal: Musee Des Beaux-Arts De Montreal, 1990. Hard Cover. 4to. French. 223 p.p. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Boards lightly sunned at edges. Fully illustrated dust jacket has some light sunning to edges of flaps, else fine. Pictorial endpapers. Copiously illustrated, many in colour... More about Salvador Dali
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Soft Cover. 8vo. Oxford World's Classics. lvi, 507 p.p., [13 p.p. ads]. Paperback. Light rubbing to edges, long red scuff to rear cover, pages lightly tanned. This is the first anthology to gather British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature in English. Interweaving stories... More about Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918
San Francisco: Sybil City Book Company, 2008. Khavarani, Kamran. Second Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Collectors Edition. In matching pictorial slipcase, with shrinkwrap. Original jacket and yellow cloth binding. xv, [2], 18-300 p.p. Signed by Kamran Khavarni on the title page in gold marker to Dwayne... More about The Birth of Abstract Romanticism: Art for a New Humanity: Rumi, and the Paintings of Kamran...
Delhi: B.R. Publishing Corporation, 1977. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. SIGNED by author, "With every good wish--Anima Bose." [viii], 96 p.p. Green cloth boards with white titling to spine. Spine ends are bumped, and spine and edges are sunned, scuffs to rear board, else in very good condition. Illustrated dust... More about Mahatma Gandhi - A Contemporary Perspective
New York: The Modern Library, 1952. Hard Cover. 12mo. The Modern Library No. 282. Abridged, with an introduction by Bergen Evans. xv, 559 p.p. Red cloth boards with black spine label and black label to front board, gilt lettering. Top edge black. Spine ends and corners bumped and rubbed. Pictorial... More about The Life of Samuel Johnson
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo (large). First Printing. ix, 292 p.p. [12] p.p. b/w photographs. Light rubbing to jacket. Small tear to foot of front jacket and closed tear to head of front cover previously repaired with tape on inner jacket. Light sunning to inner... More about Tallulah, Darling: a Biography of Tallulah Bankhead
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1917. Hard Cover. 8vo (medium). Volume I: iii, 544 p.p. Green vinyl. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to edges of boards and spine ends. Some soiling to bottom edges. Light bumping to corners. Small bruise to top of rear board. Abrasion from previous bookplate... More about Benjamin Franklin Self Revealed. a Bibliographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on His Own...
London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1960. Hard Cover. 8vo. Cadet edition, second impression. 190 p.p. Five full-page plates of b&w photographs incl. frontis. Signed in Chinese by Gladys Aylward, about whom the book was written. Original blue publisher's cloth with gilted title on spine, lettering a little faded. Minor bruising to..... More about The Small Woman
London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Original jacket and green cloth binding. Title in red on spine. 244 p.p. Includes frontispiece, plus [1] plate of photograph of D.D. Home at 45, and a portion of a holograph letter written by Home, on his expulsion from... More about Heyday of a Wizard: Daniel Home the Medium, with a Foreword By Harry Price
Amstelodami: Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1600. First Edition. Hardcover. 48mo. Full vellum binding. Spine lettered. Decorative gilt tooling on spine. All edges in red. 575 p.p., [23] p.p. index. Includes engraved title-page. Ogier Ghislain Busbecq [1522-1592] was a Flemmish writer and diplomat, who was ambassador to the Ottomon Empire at Constantinople... More about A. Gislenii Busbequii omnia quae extant
London: The Richards Press, 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. [xiii] 230 p.p. Red cloth with black lettering, dust jacket. Book clean and tight. Jakcet is price clipped, light edge wear, a couple of small chips and sunned at the upper edges and spine, with dark spot from old price sticker. More about Aleister Crowley. The Man: The Mage: The Poet
New York: New York Review Book, 2002. Soft Cover. 8vo. xx, 291 p.p. in English. Paperback. Introduction by Antonio Grafton. Translated by Jean Stoner. No marks, copy as new. 'The Book of my Life' keeps the story of Italian Renaissance, Cardano Girolamo alive, discussing his everyday life and discoveries. More about The Book of My Life (De Vita Propria Liber
Rio De Janeiro: Livraria Kosmos Editoria S.A., 1979. Hard Cover. 12" x 12" Portuguese. The print run for this issue is 1000 signed copies, copy No. 193. 225 p.p. Green cloth boards with black stamped lettering to spine and front board and light green stamped vignette to front. Minor chafing... More about Rugendas No Brasil
Rev. Samuel Rose, 1879. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. Green cloth binding with decorative boards. xxiv, 277 p.p., [1] plus 10 p.p. ads. Frontispiece of Robert Corson. Two newspaper clippings loosely inserted, about Rev. Newton Hill and Rev. Dr. Young. Light rubbing to edges, extremities. Slight bruising to spine ends. Corners... More about "Father Corson;" or, the Old Style Canadian Itinerant: Embracing the Life and Gospel...
London: Gurney and Jackson, 1928. Crawhall, Joseph; Riddell, W.H. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original green cloth boards. T.e.g. xx, 353 p.p., plus [5] p.p. ads. Illustrations by Joseph Crawhall and W.H. Riddell [20 in colour, incl. frontispiece], and rough sketches by the author. Errata slip on illustrations page. Abel Chapman..... More about Retrospect: Reminiscenses and Impressions of a Hunter-Naturalist in Three Continents, 1851-1928